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Restoring all files in a directory to a given data/time

Open saudalwasly opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

This is more a feature request than an issue. I noticed that the tool supports one file restore at a time. And it requires you to provide the revision number, not the date and time. I guess this has limited usage or usefulness. It would be easier for me to restore one file from DropBox.com web interface.

However, what I believe is more useful is to make the tool able to restore the entire folder and its contents or even sub-contents (recursively) to a given date/time. This functionality will be handy and more useful as it is not available in the web interface (DropBox.com).

saudalwasly avatar Jan 18 '18 16:01 saudalwasly

@saudalwasly thanks, that's a good suggestion! Feel free to submit a PR, otherwise I'll keep this in mind for future.

diwakergupta avatar Mar 18 '18 18:03 diwakergupta

Hello, I'd like to piggy-back on this feature request

I was wondering if it would be possible to do the opposite of this - so maybe easier to implement both at the same time?

I need to delete file history (permanently delete files) for everything a week or older, since some of my files I have in dropbox I cannot keep for that long for certain security concerns.

Right now I have to manually delete them permanently off the dropbox website. It would be great to have a command line tool to automate permanent deletion of files backed-up by dropbox past a certain age.

averyfreeman avatar Aug 06 '18 19:08 averyfreeman